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Fresh Chops: Tropics

7th Nov 2014

We’ve featured Tropics, aka Chris Ward, before here and now he has announced his new album Rapture with Fresh Chops in the form of latest song ‘Blame’.

On ‘Blame’, the opening track from Rapture, Ward’s fragile vocals tell a regretful tale of a breakup. Against a wilting synth backdrop, he begs the subject of his affections to “blame me for all of this, just come back home”.

Taking influence from Peter Gabriel, Max Roach and Arthur Russell, Tropics has crafted an album that fuses his love of avant-garde percussion, the pop-leaning hooks of classic 70s and 80s singer-songwriters, and ambient music.

Tropics plays at Servants Jazz Quarters, London on 3rd December 2014.